[AT] Test

[charlie hill]

You're not as flat as I thought but it's hard to tell because
you lens is foreshortening the distance and amplifying the
hills and valleys.  Anyway, you can stand on the beach here
or I suppose anywhere where you can't see land in the
horizon and see that the horizon line is slightly bowed high
in the center.  That is the curvature of the earth.  It's easier
to see if you are elevated as in being on a 3rd story balcony
of a beach house, etc.  It's easier to see on water because
you can be relatively certain (notwithstanding what some folks
say about rising sea levels) that the water in the ocean lays
flat (except for the waves).   My comment about the rising sea
levels is not intended to be political.  It's just something that
came to mind.  I was talking to a guy who considers himself to
be very smart and accomplished.  He told me the ocean level had
risen something like 1.7 feet or something in the last 25 years.
(those are made up numbers.  I don't remember exactly but that's in the ball 
park)
I told him that I've lived here for 65 years and I know where the water 
level was
on fixed objects then and now and that if there is any change at all it's 
only a very
few inches.  He said, OH, it up north that I'm talking about.... up in the 
North Atlantic.
I burst out laughing and my other friend sitting at the same table picked up 
his drink
cup and tilted it from side to side looking at the level in the cup and 
laughing.
So what I was doing was making a comment about folks that don't understand 
what they
think they know and I'm sure that applies to me at times.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2015 3:25 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Test

On 12/6/2015 9:31 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Ralph the land is flat here but we have lots of trees
> and we aren't as flat as it is where you are.
> I noticed in the first picture, it might have been from the
> camera lens, it appeared that you could make out the
> curvature of the earth in the background.  We can see
> that here but it has to be when we are looking out over
> the ocean.  I suspect you can see it over land there.
Charlie I don't know if it is the curvature of the earth or distortion
of the camera lens
that you are seeing. I used to be able to see the wooden grain elevators
12 miles
South when they still stood. Land all slopes south to the valley here so
we can see quite a distance that way.
Not so far East, West, or North.
As this picture from fall will show, we have our share of rolling land
and trees here.
Looking south from my driveway.  10X zoom does tend to intensify the
change in elevation too.

Ralph in Sask.
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